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In the Gray Zones of History

The Prague Pediatrician Berthold Epstein (1890–1962)

Language: English
260 pages, softcover with (fold-in) flaps
71 illustrations
ISBN: 978-3-95565-555-6
Publication date: 2023
27.00 €

The Jewish pediatrician Berthold Epstein qualified scientifically in Prague, where he rose to become chair and director of the renowned 2nd Pediatric Hospital at the German University.
Dismissed on anti-Semitic reasons at the end of 1938, he and his wife managed to escape into exile to Norway. Imprisoned after the German occupation, they were taken to Auschwitz at the end of 1942 where his wife was immediately murdered. Mengele learned about the renowned pediatrician and used him for his own purposes. After liberation, he remained active as a doctor in Auschwitz and returned to Prague with the army in May 1945.
Upon his return, he was suspect as German, Jew, and survivor and could not resume his hospital activities till the end of 1949 when he took over a pediatric department. His life reflects the eventful history from the time of the Danube Monarchy to the Czechoslovak
post-war period.


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Stephan Heinrich Nolte

studierte Medizin und Kulturwissenschaften in Göttingen, Freiburg und Paris. Nach klinischer Tätigkeit in Freiburg und Marburg Niederlassung als Kinder- und Jugendarzt und Psychotherapeut. Er ist Lehrbeauftragter der Philipps-Universität Marburg, Fachjournalist, Kolumnist und Buchautor von Fachbüchern und Ratgebern.

Vera Trnka

geboren 1946 in Prag. Chemie-Studium an der KU Prag, anschließend Promotion in Biochemie an der Universität Heidelberg. Arbeit in der Forschung, bis 2013 pädagogische Tätigkeit. Im (Un)Ruhestand ehrenamtliche Mitarbeiterin der Bibliothek der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg, Autorin der Monatszeitung der tschechischen und slowakischen Jüdischen Gemeinde Rosch Chodesch in Prag und der Jüdischen Jahrbücher der Föderation der Jüdischen Gemeinden in der Tschechischen Republik.

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